NEWS

New information about the Youth Civil participation seminar: New deadline: January 25th, 2006
Thanks to the increased contribution of the British Council the participant fee was canceled and we reimburse the full travel costs up to a certain amount.(more)added Jan. 17th 2006

The Students' Forum 2000, the Association for International Affairs and the British Council are organizing a seminar about the problems and perspectives of Youth civil participation in Europe. (more)added Dec. 15th 2005

Long term course aimed at providing help for Easter European countries in development of a stable civic society environment. (more)added Nov. 15th 2005

Václav Havel - Former President of the Czech Republic
Dear students and honoured guests, It is my pleasure to greet you at the Students´ Forum 2000. I believe it is important to offer students the same opportunities to share their views and ideas as their counterparts have at the anual FORUM 2000 conference.

Yohei Sasakawa - President of the Nippon Foundation
“Students are really our hope for the future." Yohei Sasakawa about the students' delegates at the FORUM 2000 conference.

What is Students' Forum 2000

The Students’ Forum 2000 initiative was created as a youth branch of the
FORUM 2000 Foundation.
The reason behind was to provide young people with the opportunity to reflect
the mission of the FORUM 2000 and
extend its scope with their visions and opinions.

Since 1998 the Students’ Forum 2000 organized annual conferences on various topics in
close connection and cooperation with the FORUM 2000
conferences and was credited for its
effort and results.

Over the years the Students’ Forum 2000 developed a wider field of activities.
The most important were aimed at the development of civil society and resulted in the annual
Market of Non-Governmental Organizations (or NGO-market)
an exposition of the nongovernmental sector in Czech Republic with numerous foreign participants.

Additionally a variety of study sessions and seminars were organized to further develop
the potential of youth actives within the nongovernmental sector. These activities deepened
the theoretical overview of the various aspects of civic society and equipped the participants
with practical skills which they used and are still using to run a broad specter of organizations
and projects around the globe.

Presently the Students’ Forum 2000 is still in close connection with the mission and work
of the FORUM 2000 foundation. Its members regularly participate at the preparation of the
FORUM 2000 conference and acquire skills, knowledge and experience they use to prepare new
projects of the Students’ Forum itself.

These new projects are closely related to the actual social and political development and
are directed to the following fields of activities:

Development of Civic society. Especially the mobilization and education of young people
for working within this framework

Pursuing public debates about all actual issues via seminars and discussions

We invest a lot while preparing young people to get skills knowledge and self-confidence
for a good start when finishing school and beginning a professional career

Least but not last, an important amount of our activities are aimed at informal
activities so that the more serious work is balanced with an appropriate amount of sport,
traveling and other free time activities

Students' Forum is organized under the auspices of Mr. Vaclav Havel, former president of the
Czech Republic.